Here’s the silver lining for leaden say-on-pay performance: the worse a company fares in its annual advisory say-on-pay vote, the likelier it is to amplify both shareholder engagement and disclosure the following year.

Critics of allowing Swiss bank Credit Suisse to continue managing billions of dollars in pension fund assets after it pleaded guilty last year to aiding American tax evasion will be able to have their say at a public hearing Thursday.